The tool has only been tested on four devices – the Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 – but Ubuntu says the tools that make dual boot possible should work on 50 Android machines listed here.

Once you run the tool and run Ubuntu, you'll have the chance to exercise the options depicted below.

Ubuntu or Android? The choice is yours.

Before you put yourself in the position to consider this choice, know that this tool “is not part of the regular Ubuntu release” and “was born as an internal skunkworks project some Canonical Engineers dedicated a limited amount of their time to.”

In other words, it works but don't expect perfection. Which sounds like just the kind of challenge to keep you busy once you tire of eating, drinking and being nice to relatives. ®